Factory farm animals are rarely treated humanely. In Connecticut, the use of very small, constricting cages is still legal, despite the animals being unable to move inside them. Sign this petition to ask legislators to make these cages illegal.

For too long, animal welfare has been in the hands of Agriculture Ministers, whose primary responsibility is to answer to the very perpetrators of industrialised animal cruelty. Now there's hope for an end to this conflict of interest, through an

In New Hampshire, it's currently legal to immobilize breeding pigs and veal calves, for their entire lives, in crates so small they can't even turn around. Veal crates (for calves) and gestation crates (for pigs) are two of the most cruel and inhumane

In recent years, whistleblowing employees have repeatedly exposed animal abuse, unsafe working conditions, and environmental problems on industrial farms. The agriculture industry's response to these exposés has not been to prevent the abuses, but rather

Last Chance for Animals (LCA), an activist group based in Los Angeles, recently completed an undercover investigation of Hernandez Farm, a backyard slaughter operation in Tampa, Florida. The farm, owned and run by a man named Brulio Hernandez,

I cannot believe the arrogant effrontery of these people. To propose such bills is tantamount to an admission that these places are rife with animal abuse and cruelty and they are seeking permission to cover this up and encourage it to continue. Absolutely shameless.

Wyoming bill, HB 126, seeks to make it unlawful to record images or sound, to prohibit recording and taping which exposing the abuse of animals in agriculture facilities. Additionally, this bill requires that any criminal conduct be reported to the

The New Hampshire House Environment and Agriculture Committee recently presented a bill that would require all acts of animal abuse on farms to be reported within 24 hours, dramatically limiting larger investigations and prosecutions. It has been viewed by animal rights groups as a way to silence whistleblowers. Sign the petition to make sure this bill isn’t passed into law.

RSPCA NSW inspectors were investigating Wally’s piggery and monitoring its compliance with the Code of Practice for pigs, as referenced in NSW law. Unfortunately this is the same Code that allows sows to be confined to individual stalls and farrowing crates, so small they can’t even turn around. The level of cruelty and disrepair at Wally's Piggery in NSW is unacceptable, with many proven breaches of The Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals.

I implore you to do all in your power to shut down the facility permanently and to a reasonable extent seek new accommodation for the animals where they will not be raised for slaughter.

Other piggeries elsewhere in Australia should be immediately and rigorously inspected for similar conditions.

Shropshire Council has received another application to build an intensive broiler chicken production facility and raise a spring lambing flock. If approved, these plans would condemn 150,000 birds and more than 300 sheep to a life of misery and suffering

Best wishes from the Animals Australia team "to all those who have helped us to give animals the best possible representation in 2012" and a pledge to do even more for them in 2013. -- I believe in a world without factory farming! Let's Make It Possible!

A slaughterhouse in Beit She'an has been exposed for ongoing accounts of animal abuse. Recently, an environmental agency opened a criminal investigation of the slaughterhouse and discovered a horror beyond their expectations. The cattle that are taken to

This kind of advertising merely anaesthetises the meat eater from what they are actually indulging in. Those who eat other species should see it as it is including the slaughter house where they died in terror often after being beaten. They put lurid photographs in UK on cigarette packets why not on meat? Australia also now according to the news this week. Even if you only look at this from a human health angle how on earth is it healthy to eat meat especially the kind of stuff that goes into burgers and sausages and chicken nuggets? I bet the avid meat eater is just as much a drain on the NHS as the smoker if not more. Obesity is not common amongst vegetarians and it is running rampant in UK at the moment.

Once again Thank-You for the educational and informative Article Noted, signed, and sent messages Current Monika : Joined Causes for Helping Cattle and Camels In Jaisalmer and invited some Dear Lenicka Thank-You Everyone : 2/12

In July 2012, a truck from Circle S Ranch in North Carolina was carrying a shipment of live turkeys from the farm to the slaughterhouse. When the truck overturned en route, nearly 600 turkeys were left to die from heat exhaustion and injuries.

Please sign this petition to Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics by Factory Farms, The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2011 Number: H.R. 965 and S.1211 so they can limit amount of antibiotics its not good for the animals SIGN

The UK is hosting the 2013 G8 Summit where they will be considering answers to world hunger they are proposing Factory farming animals PLEASE SIGN PETITION telling the UK that there are other answers as provided by compassionate world farming PLEASE SIGN

Tail docking, (also called tail banding), is the cruel and unnessary proceedure practiced on farm animals- such as cows, sheep and pigs. The animals tail is cut off- exposing nerves and tailbones with no pain relief- or, a rubber band is wrapped tightly

Recently, laws have been proposed for the 2012 legislative session that would make it illegal to take videos or photos of factory farms without their permission. Ultimately, the goal is to prevent undercover investigations to show the public

The intense, inhumane, concentration of pigs in factory farms in Brittany, Northern France, leads to welfare problems. So many animals living together in such a small space also poses major environmental issues. The quantity of manure that these animals produce is so excessive that, rather than being a useful by-product, it becomes a pollutant – widely reported to be leaching into local rivers and travelling from there to the sea.

What is more, intensively farmed pigs cannot exhibit many of their natural behaviours, like grazing or foraging, and they are fed large quantities of cereals.

Animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has come in the way of our soldiers getting trendy and comfortable leather sports shoes. She says thousands of cows will have to be slaughtered to make sneakers for 1.1 million jawans.

Animals used by the leather industry are transported to states where they can legally be killed. Forced to walk through the heat and dust for days without food or water, many of the animals collapse. Cows are pulled by ropes that are inserted through

'Leather shoes have been excluded from the school uniform in all government schools,' Principal Secretary (Education) Shrikant Baldi told IANS. 'Now the students can wear only canvas shoes.' - Abhishek Kadyan, Media Adviser to OIPA in India - PFA Haryana

Most leather comes from cows raised for both beef and milk. Cows raised for beef spend most of their lives on extremely crowded feedlots. Studies have found that ranchers maximize profits by giving each steer less than 20 square feet of living space—the equivalent of putting 12 half-ton steers in a typical American bedroom!

The animals are subjected to painful procedures such as castration, branding (which causes third-degree burns), tail-docking, and dehorning—all without painkillers. They are deprived of veterinary care and exposed to the elements without any shelter. These breathing, thinking, feeling beings, who feel pain just as humans do, suffer immensely. They are also fed a steady diet of hormones to fatten them and antibiotics to keep them alive in extremely poor living conditions.

At the end of their short, dismal lives, cows are jam-packed into metal trucks, where, confused and terrified, they suffer from injury, weather extremes, crowded conditions, hunger, and thirst. In the winter, cows routinely arrive for slaughter frozen to the sides of transport trucks, frozen to truck bottoms in their own feces and urine, and injured or dead from the journey.

Frequently collapsing during their hellish ride, many cows arrive at the slaughterhouse unable to walk out of the back of the transport truck, so they are dragged off the truck with chains—often breaking bones when they hit the ground. Every year, tens of millions of cows are stunned, hung upside-down, bled to death, and skinned in slaughterhouses. The federal Humane Slaughter Act stipulates that cows should be stunned by a mechanical blow to the head and rendered unconscious before they are strung up, but the high speed of the assembly lines—which often process up to 400 cows per hour—often results in improper stunning. Each year, millions of cows are skinned and dismembered while they are still kicking and crying out in terror.

Buying leather directly contributes to factory farms and slaughterhouses because skin is the most economically important byproduct of the meat industry.